COURTESY ABSOLUT
Absolut announced the nominees for its 2017 Absolut Art Award today. In total, there are 49 nominees across two categories—Art Work and Art Writing.
Both awards come with a €20,000 (about $22,500) prize, along with an additional €100,000 ($112,400) toward an upcoming project for the Art Work category, and an additional €25,000 ($28,100) toward a new publication for the Art Writing category.
The 39 artist nominees were chosen by Philippe Pirotte, Thelma Golden, Nan Oforiatta-Ayim, Venus Lau, François Quintin, Solveig Øvstebø, Bart van der Heide, Diana Campbell Betancourt, Sohrab Mohebbi, and Michelle Kuo. In January, a jury led by Daniel Birnbaum will reveal the five finalists.
The list of nominees follows in full below.
Art Work
Shumon Ahmed
Mehraneh Atashi
Monika Baer
Neïl Beloufa
Katinka Bock
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Sol Calero
Neha Choksi
Serge Attukwei Clottey
Simon Denny
Cao Fei
Samara Golden
Irena Haiduk
Tamara Henderson
Anne Imhof
Maryam Jafri
Hassan Khan
Yaw Brobbey Kyei
Ibrahim Mahama
Corey McCorkle
Shahryar Nashat
Otobong Nkanga
Katja Novitskova
Yuri Pattison
Falke Pisano
Lucy Raven
Willem de Rooij
Cameron Rowland
Nora Schultz
Cally Spooner
Elisabeth Sutherland
Martine Syms
Asim Waqif
Munem Wasif
Liu Wei
Ming Wong
Haegue Yang
Anicka Yi
Samson Young
Art Writing
Karen Archey
Lee Weng Choy
Anna Colin
Huey Copeland
Johanna Fateman
Orit Gat
Isabelle Graw
Ranjit Hoskote
Shanay Jhaveri
Missla Libsekal